Tree-protector



(No Model.)

M. BURNS. TREE PROTECTOR.

PatentdMay 14, 1895.

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UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL BURNS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

TREE-PROTEC TO R.

SPIEGIFI(J.l-L'1IO].\T forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,344, dated May'14, 1895.

A lication filed September 18,1894. Serial No.523,3l4- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MICHAEL BURNS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tree-Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to tree protectors.

The object is to produce asimple and inexpensive device, in the nature of a guard, adj ustable to trunks of trees varying in size, it being applied in a manner, to form a barrier and render the passage of caterpillars, or other pests, impossible.

With this object in view, the invention consists in a protector, comprisinga body of pliable sheet metal, gauze,'or like material, bent up into an approximately cylindrical form, and having its adjoining edges lapped and detachably connected, whereby the diameter may be increased or decreased in a ready and convenient manner, and a spring or pliable Wire fastening collar, encircling and interlaced at the upper end of the body, by which itmay be drawn well in, around the tree, the lower end being thereby spread or flared, and having its edge serrated or otherwise roughened; furthermore, in a protector, comprising a body of pliable sheet metal, gauze or like material, bent up into an approximately cylindrical form, and having its adjoining edges lapped and detachably connected, whereby the diameter may be increased or decreased in a ready and convenient manner, and a spring or pliable wire fastenin g collar, encircling and interlaced at the upper end of the body, by which it may be drawn well in, around the tree, the lower end being thereby spread or flared, and having its edge serrated or otherwise roughened and turned upward, within the body, to form a catch trough for the insects; and finally, in details of construction.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Figure 1 is a view in elevation of one embodiment of the invention applied, showing the wire-gauze body at its upper end drawn well in around the trunk of the tree and the lower edge out of contact therewith by being flared, and the wire lacing by which the edges of the body are detachably connected. Fig. 2 is a View in central vertical section of a modified form of protector applied, showing the lower flared end thereof turned upward within the body as a catch-trough and the edge thereof out of contact with the trunk of the tree.

In the drawings, A, represents the protec tor, preferably of wire gauze, approximately cylindrical and tapering toward the upper end. The body portion may, if desired, be formed from sheet material, cut in a manner, so as to afiord, when bent up, surplus lapping at the adjoining edges and thereby render the diameter adjustable to tree trunks varying in size. The edges are connected by any suitable fastener, such as a wire lacing a, which may be continued in the form of an encircling collar at the upper end of the body, by being interlaced around, adjacent the edge, a tight joint being necessary at that point. It may be at times found convenient to substitute for the pliable wire lacing around the upper edge of the body, a spring metal collar, for facility in applying the device. In forming the lapped seam, an increased diameter is given the lower end of the body, so that the greater portion of its length will be held out of contact with the tree trunk, the lower edgebeing left rough, andby reason of the projecting ends of the longitudinal Wires of the gauze, passage thereover of insects, such as caterpillars, will be impossible.

In Fig. 2, of the drawings, the lower edge is shown, bent upward within the body, to serve as acatch trough a in collecting the insects, which may be readily destroyed by fire, upon removing the protector, and without injury to the device itself.

The many advantages of this device will be at once apparent from, the foregoing description. Its extreme simplicity of construction, as well as the low cost of the manufacture, gives it a superiority over many of the devices now in use; again, its neat design, and the expeditious and convenient manner in which it may be applied, together with its strength and durability, serve to make it useful, ornamental and effectivein operation.

Having fully described the invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters catch trough, with the ends of the longitudi- Patent, is 'nal wires forming a rough edge, as specified. A tree protector comprising a body formed In testimony whereof I have affixed my sigof wire gauze by being bent approximately nature in the presence of two subscribing 5 cylindrical and having its adjoining edges Witnesses.

lapped and detachably secured, whereby the a A diameter may be adjusted, a spring wire fas- MHHAEL BURNS tening collar encircling the upper end of the Witnesses:

body, the lower end thereof being flared and GEORGE MOCURDY,

1o turned upward within the body to form a W. H. PUMPHREY. 

